Sourcing Manager - C&P

This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to the routes in the safest, most cost-efficient, and effective way, enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.

Network Rails Commercial & Procurement (C&P) team leads the development and delivery of commercial strategies encompassing the whole lifecycle of category strategies, sourcing, supplier management and procurement operations.

We are passionate about collaborating with our customers and the supply chain to buy and manage great commercial solutions that deliver value for passengers. You will be working in a team that is highly collaborative and where you will be offered excellent training and development opportunities.

About the role (External)

About the team..
You will join the Corporate Services sourcing team within the Route Services C&P team.

Our team leads exciting, high-profile, professional services sourcing projects for our internal customers, including, HR, Occupational Health, Training, Supplies and Services, Facilities, Retail Property, Professional Services, Insurance and Consultancy.

We are a super friendly team of 20, with an effective team ethos of supporting and developing each other. We enjoy regular team events together combining an element of learning as well as enjoying each others company!

What does the average day look like?
You will collaborate closely with your customers and our business experts to undertake pre-market engagement with the supply chain, draft sourcing strategies and tender documentation. You will be the expert leading the sourcing project, undertake complex commercial evaluations, including using your professional knowledge to lead negotiations with suppliers. You will have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have in depth experience of the end-to-end procurement process, be happy to challenge and be challenged and be prepared to go above and beyond to support our customers.

Understanding your customers needs will put you in the best place to identify the optimum strategic direction and put in place contracting strategies that embrace change, innovation, and creative thinking. We want you to bring us new ideas to help us:

improve safety everyone home safe every day;

be more sustainable;

be more efficient;

introduce innovation from our supply chain; and

provide creative contracting strategies.

It would also be nice if you have experience of working in a regulated procurement environment.

To help you find out more about the role we have created a candidate pack, linked below, which gives you an insight into what its like to work at Network Rail including our purpose, our culture and values, pay and benefits, learning and development and how we create an inclusive environment for all.

We are looking for dynamic procurement professionals to join our team, leading high value and complex sourcing projects.

If you love to engage with your customers, thrive on using your own initiative, have great people skills and are passionate about making a difference, please read on., Educated to a Business or Economics degree standard or equivalent business experience

Deep level of Sourcing experience, with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery

Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set

Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management

Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities

Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods

Politically savvy, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level

Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience of complex sourcing specific challenges

Completer finisher mindset

Please see attached job description for full details.
Desirable Criteria

Line management experience

Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment, Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our Safety Vision

Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.

Discounts at stations with your Network Rail pass.

Defined benefit pension scheme

75% subsidy on train tickets.

️ Interest-free travel loan for train and car park season tickets.

️ Volunteer leave to make a positive impact.

Plus more.